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TI-2023-05816 Aliases CVE-2023-6337GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5

Vault May be Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Through Memory Exhaustion When Handling Large HTTP Requests

Priority LOW 34CWE-770Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00792 56th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Vault (HashiCorp): 1.15.4Vault Enterprise (HashiCorp): 1.15.4+1 more product

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
HashiCorpVault1.12.0 to before 1.15.41.15.4Patch availableCNA
HashiCorpVault Enterprise1.12.0 to before 1.15.41.15.4Patch availableCNA
—github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go)1.15.0 to before 1.15.41.15.4Patch availableGHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5
—github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go)1.14.0 to before 1.14.81.14.8Patch availableGHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5
—github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go)1.12.0 to before 1.13.121.13.12Patch availableGHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5
  • Vault VendorHashiCorp Affected 1.12.0 to before 1.15.4 Fixed in 1.15.4 Patch available CNA
  • Vault Enterprise VendorHashiCorp Affected 1.12.0 to before 1.15.4 Fixed in 1.15.4 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.15.0 to before 1.15.4 Fixed in 1.15.4 Patch available GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5
  • github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.14.0 to before 1.14.8 Fixed in 1.14.8 Patch available GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5
  • github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.12.0 to before 1.13.12 Fixed in 1.13.12 Patch available GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5

CPE configurations NVD · 8

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 1.12.0VulnerableHashiCorp
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*up to 1.12.0VulnerableHashiCorp
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*1.13.0 to before 1.13.12VulnerableHashiCorp
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*1.13.0 to before 1.13.12VulnerableHashiCorp
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*1.14.0 to before 1.14.8VulnerableHashiCorp
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*1.14.0 to before 1.14.8VulnerableHashiCorp
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*1.15.0 to before 1.15.4VulnerableHashiCorp
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*1.15.0 to before 1.15.4VulnerableHashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 1.12.0 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* Versions up to 1.12.0 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.13.0 to before 1.13.12 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* Versions 1.13.0 to before 1.13.12 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.14.0 to before 1.14.8 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* Versions 1.14.0 to before 1.14.8 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.15.0 to before 1.15.4 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* Versions 1.15.0 to before 1.15.4 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Vault (HashiCorp) Fixed in 1.15.4
  • Fix · CNA Vault Enterprise (HashiCorp) Fixed in 1.15.4
  • Fix · GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5 github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Fixed in 1.15.4 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5 github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Fixed in 1.14.8 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5 github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Fixed in 1.13.12 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 3 products
  • OpenShift Pipelines
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-6337
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5

References

Advisory 2

Other 4

  • TI-2024-01904 Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2022-19053 An issue was discovered in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.11.3. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2020-17874 The official vault docker images before 0.11.6 contain a blank password for a root user. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-10142 HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, when configured with the GCP… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-04407 Vault Vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in ACME Challenge Validation via Attacker-Controlled DNS CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2025-05421 Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
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